Understanding the Rules of Life–Emergent Networks (NSF)

2021 ◽  
Vol 45 (7) ◽  
pp. 3-3
Keyword(s):  
Emergent Networks

Bilateral Collaboration and Emergent Networks

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robin Cowan ◽  
Nicolas Jonard ◽  
Jean-Benoit Zimmermann
Keyword(s):  
Emergent Networks ◽  
Bilateral Collaboration

Reconsidering institutions

2020 ◽  
pp. 33-54
Author(s):  
Kate Crowley ◽  
Jenny Stewart ◽  
Adrian Kay ◽  
Brian W. Head
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Problem Solving ◽  
Institutional Theory ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
New Institutionalism ◽  
Policy Network ◽  
Complex Landscape ◽  
Emergent Networks ◽  
Over Time

Although institutions are central to the study of public policy, the focus upon them has shifted over time. This chapter is concerned with the role of institutions in problem solving and the utility of an evolving institutional theory that has significantly fragmented. It argues that the rise of new institutionalism in particular is symptomatic of the growing complexity in problems and policy making. We review the complex landscape of institutional theory, we reconsider institutions in the context of emergent networks and systems in the governance era, and we reflect upon institutions and the notion of policy shaping in contemporary times. We find that network institutionalism, which draws upon policy network and community approaches, has a particular utility for depicting and explaining complex policy.

Emergent Networks of Intelligence

2014 ◽  
pp. 327-333
Author(s):  
Ben Goertzel ◽  
Cassio Pennachin ◽  
Nil Geisweiller
Keyword(s):  
Emergent Networks

Jeffrey L. Pressman and Aaron B. Wildavsky,

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kai Wegrich
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Policy Research ◽  
Employment Opportunities ◽  
Public Policy Research ◽  
Implementation Studies ◽  
Central Argument ◽  
Aaron Wildavsky ◽  
Emergent Networks

This chapter comments onImplementation, a book by Jeffrey L. Pressman and Aaron Wildavsky. It traces its roots to the Economic Development Agency’s Oakland project, designed to promote economic development in cities by increasing employment opportunities for minorities. It considers Pressman and Wildavsky’s account of why the Oakland program failed, as well as their central argument with regards to the role of politics and policy-making in implementation. It discusses the decline of implementation studies as the dominating subfield of public policy research and highlights some key concerns raised by Pressman and Wildavsky that continue to be influential. The chapter concludes by looking at debates about the merits of non-hierarchical coordination, informal interaction, and emergent networks.

(Un)Obtrusive Control in Emergent Networks: Examining Funding Agencies’ Control Over Nonprofit Networks

2016 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
pp. 469-487 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marya L. Doerfel ◽  
Yannick Atouba ◽  
Jack L. Harris
Keyword(s):  
Nonprofit Sector ◽  
The United States ◽  
External Funding ◽  
Underlying Assumption ◽  
Public Agency ◽  
Holding Power ◽  
Funding Agencies ◽  
Intractable Problems ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Emergent Networks

Nonprofit sector organizations tackle intractable problems by seeking support from external funding agencies, resulting in funders holding power through resource control. Nonprofits also access resources and coordinate activities through building networks with other nonprofits. Such networks have been viewed as emergent with an underlying assumption that the nonprofits determine when and with whom to partner. Given the power of funders, however, how much control do the nonprofits have in determining whether or not to partner? Document analysis of 83 application packets used by funders in the United States to collect and assess nonprofit suitability for funding shows significant differences between private- and public-sector control over nonprofits decisions to network. Unlike private-sector foundations, public-agency funding documents mandate awardees to network, which has practical and theoretical implications. Although the idea of building a network implies autonomous acts on the part of nonprofits, some are prone to hierarchical influences through grant-making policy.

scholarly journals Posthuman Contours_New Museum Infrastructures

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aris Peci
Keyword(s):  
Boundary Condition ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Architectural Discourse ◽  
Design Systems ◽  
Emergent Networks ◽  
Infrastructural Network

Contemporary architectural discourse continues to use humanist definitions of the user leading to incompatible built interfaces. This thesis speculates on what potential modalities arise when we radically shift our understanding of the user from that of the Human to the Posthuman. The museum is utilized as a typology to explore the conceptual framework of a Posthuman user for the development of an architectural system. By approaching the museum as an infrastructural network rather than an insulated boundary condition we can begin to understand the emergent networks and autonomous processes that constitute contemporary built ecologies. Design systems that are developed through a Posthuman perspective begin to engender design ecologies that operate through autonomous states in collaboration with artifacts, actors, and interfaces.

scholarly journals Pandemic makers: Emergent networks of collective entrepreneurship in response to crisis

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Russell Browder ◽  
Angela Forgues ◽  
Stella Seyb ◽  
Howard Aldrich
Keyword(s):  
Collective Action ◽  
Resource Constraints ◽  
Learned Resourcefulness ◽  
Local Networks ◽  
Self Organized ◽  
Collective Entrepreneurship ◽  
Multiple Case ◽  
Entrepreneurial Action ◽  
Emergent Networks

In response to COVID-19 and the shortage of personal protective equipment, the maker community activated local networks in a display of collective action. We conducted a multiple case study of emergent networks to understand how makers self-organized for collective entrepreneurial action while facing resource constraints and legitimacy deficits. Although the maker community has endeavored to break free from institutional constraints, they nonetheless formed relationships with institutions in need. They deployed learned resourcefulness and learned legitimation strategies with varying degrees of effectiveness. Our findings contribute to the literature on resourcefulness, legitimation, and collective action in entrepreneurship processes.

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